Person: Aitchison, John

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John Aitchison was a Scottish statistician who made contributions to distribution theory, practical Bayesian statistics, statistical diagnosis in medicine and other areas of applied and theoretical statistics.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

Born 22 July 1926, East Linton, East Lothian, Scotland. Died 23 December 2016, Glasgow, Scotland.

View full biography at MacTutor

Origin Scotland


Thank you to the contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0!

Github:
bookofproofs
non-Github:
@J-J-O'Connor
@E-F-Robertson


References

Adapted from other CC BY-SA 4.0 Sources:

  1. O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive